Hello , i'm italian so i hope that you will understand my poor english.I need to know the exact traduction for "soft overcomes hard" , because i'm gonna make a tatoo with that on my arm.That speech has a very important meaning for me , because it helped me to figure out many problems in my life.So i'de like to know the ideograms for :

In this image, the phrase reads from the top down with the right column, then the left column

This actually seems to come from a buddhist phrase that means basically "presence of mind will lead you to Enlightenment" or "presence of mind is the way"

平常心 へいじょうしん one's presence of mind

是 これ basically means "this"

道 どう this is the kanji for road,way, (normally read michi / みち on it's own ) but in this context is used for "the way" in the context of "buddhist teachings".

That all being said, this has nothing really to do with soft overcoming hard directly, unless one wants to really try to grasp at straws for "presence of mind" being soft and "the way" is overcoming hard, but I doubt that.

Here is what else I was able to find、which DOES seem to do with soft overcoming hard, and have found direct references to it for Judo, a martial art.

柔能く剛を制す ( which more commonly seems to be written as 柔よく剛を制す )

Once again, the phrase reads top down, right column then left, and even here they use よく over 能く

柔 じゅう softness能く よく often ( or has the ability to )剛 ごう hard制す せいす to get the better of

Softness often gets the better of hard ( roughly ) or Softness has the ability to get the better of hard ( roughly )